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When all parts of an horfe are firm and folid, he 

 is lighter for the courfe j and confequently more 

 fpeedy. 



If the Thighs * under the Tail, or Hocks, are diftinclly 

 feparated, he will extend his hinder legs a great way 

 under his belly ; and, in fo doing, will carry his rider 

 with more flrength and fwiftnefs, and be better in 

 every point. — Of this any one may be convinced, by 

 confidering that a man, when he takes a thing from 

 the ground, Hands with his legs aftride and open. 



The Tefiicks f of an horfe Ihould not be large ; but 

 their proper fize cannot be determined in a colt. 



What has been faid upon the Pajierns, the Legs, the 

 Fetlocks, and the Hoofs, of the fore-part of the Horfe, may be 

 applied to the fame parts beUnd. 



I will now fubjoin by what means any man Inay 

 make the beft guefs at theyfoe of a colt : that which is 

 foaled with the hngejl legs will be the talleft ; for the legs 

 of all four-footed animals do at no time increafe much 

 in fize ; but the other parts grow fo ^ to become pro- 

 portionable to them. 



* By this we are to underftand that the Hocks, which he calls the 

 thighs under the 'Tail, fhould be at a proper diftance from each other, 

 in oppofition to that fhape or mould of an horfe in which they turn /a, 

 and almoft touch each other ; tlie French call horfes fo formed Crochu, 

 and we Cat-ha?mned, from their refemblance in thefe parts, to the hinder 

 legs of that animal. 



j Apfyrtus fays they fhould be fmall. 



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